Canadian seasonally adjusted housing starts fell to 213,419 units in December 2018 from an upwardly revised 224,349 units in November and above market expectations of 205,000 units. Multiple urban starts declined by 6.8 percent to 144,728 units and single-detached urban starts dropped by 2.6 percent to 49,866 units. Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 18,825 units. Housing Starts in Canada averaged 185.58 Thousand units from 1977 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 291.60 Thousand units in March of 1978 and a record low of 90.70 Thousand units in August of 1982.